I now support the merger for the entertainment value it will provide.
That map is 5 years old and your maps are frankly terrible. Applying a random canvas texture isn't "spicing things up," it's wasting file size for no discernible reason: it conveys no useful information and looks ugly to boot. This and this, while hardly the apex, are far more representative of what would be implemented currently if I had Photoshop on hand at the moment.An increase to 5 mb is not a large increase. I put them in to spice stuff up, ofc that subjective. But the point being we do use maps that are equal if not greater than the standard Symphony D map you guys use. Dont take this as an insult, I just find it annoying to see a Symphony D map in every "world" NES I join. Flyingchickens map is superb I must say. Also one can put so much interms of usefullness and not in aesthetics.
I think you miss the point of the location of troops, When I look at a map with provinces I can see my options, I can see other players options. Without borders there are literally endless things troops could do, including a lot of things which one gm would allow and another wouldn't, thus I can't really feel like I am making an informed choice when I make my orders.
I honestly do not know how economy is run in NESes, it seems to be different with every mod.